Hey all you cool cats and kittens: Reading stories aloud together builds vocabulary, improves comprehension, and promotes speech development. By adding a craft to the experience, you continue to build on story time learning; practicing motor skills and creativity, while reminding the child of themes and words from the story. It becomes active engagement, in the same way that the added movement of Bendy Bookworm’s yoga poses do, in order to benefit the child’s optimal ability to learn through play.
Need more things to do at home with your toddler? Purrrrrfect! This craft is for you. Ideal for ages 18 months - 5 years old. This craft, read along with the suggested book titles, is great for practicing cutting with scissors, drawing shapes, and using the proper amount of glue (yeah, we all know that one takes practice!!).
Cognitive Skills: vocabulary (learned from picture book)
Motor Skills: glueing and scissor practice
Emotional Skills: self expression and creativity (practiced during the craft)
Materials:
Paper Plate OR White Paper
Glue
Scissors
Crayons
Optional: Colored Tissue Paper, Construction Paper, OR Washable Paint AND Yarn
Step One:
* Cut 2 ovals for eyes, 2 ear triangles, 2 smaller triangles, 1 oval nose, and 1 arrow for the mouth.
Step Two:
* Paint, color, cover the paper plate (or a cut circle out of paper) with any cat color you want!
Step Three:
* Paint or color in your eyes and glue the smaller triangle to the larger triangle.
Step Four:
* Glue it all together.
Draw in/ glue yarn to the face for whiskers!
Pair With:
These titles can be found on overdrive/ hoopla, ebook catalogs
you may be able to access with your library card!
